Prostitute checked into our hotel!

[GrumpyL]

Ok, so away in London for a couple of days with DH and DD (10). We were staying in a 4* Hotel which is part of a large chain of hotels, not a small independent. We went to reception about 10.30 on the 2nd morning and was met with a lady (who was very obviously a prostitute) being told her room would be ready in 5 mins and her handing over £100 in cash to the receptionist. The hotel is £250+ a night and check in is 3pm!

AIBU to this this made the hotel feel a bit icky and sleazy after I saw that? Husband and I spoke briefly when DD wasn’t listening and he said “well they have to work somewhere!”. Not sure if I’m turning into a prude in my old age, but I really didn’t feel comfortable in the hotel after I saw that. I’m sure for her, it was a safe and comfortable place to work and I know this goes on in hotels, I suppose just seeing it in broad daylight shocked me a bit. We knew what she was there for, the receptionist knew what she was there for, the man behind us in the queue knew what she was there for, maybe I thought she and the hotel should have been a bit more discreet if they allow this to go on in their hotel, especially when it’s a family friendly hotel and there were a lot of children around?

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really OP was she wearing her suspenders and nipples tassels holding a dildo in the reception area?

Absolutely awful that yoh assume she was a prostitute. Maybe she’d paid a deposit?

and how dare you as a woman! Judge another woman for how they dress

disgusting

in broad daylight😁

Hey. I worked for many years with the homeless who were entrenched in addictions. I let many a prostitute in my time doing that (25 years)

anyway, not one of them had I of passed in the street, would I of assumed was a prostitution.

I used to work in a hotel and it's not uncommon to have day rates and rooms booked as day rooms, for people travelling, working or a number of reasons
So rate could have been £100 or she'd already paid a deposit

Could you imagine actually just wanting a soft pillow and then a prostitute turning up?!

I’ve met many prostitutes in my work with the homeless and not one looked like one.

your Post did make me laugh! 😂

Sounds like it’s £100 for a few hours until they need to get the room ready for the next customer checkin at 3pm.
Seems the hotel is making good money from her.

I have asked for pillows many times from hotels!!!

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She's not shagging in the lobby. Get over yourself.

Hard agree. Sex worker has been pushed to make the sexual exploitation of women seem normal and just like any other job. Fuck that.

They do. 😂

Meh... A pal of mine works in a certain budget hotel, and they get prostitutes in there several times a month. 6 or 7 different men overnight (from 8pm to 6am...) No-one really cares. They're not hurting anyone, and always leave the room tidy and clean.

Any man who pays a woman to let him fuck her knows she doesn’t actually want to do it.

Really? So you’re saying it’s impossible to enjoy your work?

So?

I understand why you might have felt able to identify that the woman in question was a sex worker.

I am deeply disturbed that you think your ten-year-old, or any other child in the hotel lobby, would be able to ascertain the same.

Perhaps she thought you were a prostitute too

What's going to happen to the children then? They're probably going to be more freaked out about the adults they trust acting weirdly suddenly then a person going about their business.
Unless you equate sex worker with child snatcher or something?
Why not use it as an opportunity to address some of your triggers, and then use it as an opportunity to think about how you want your children to learn about this kind of topic.

Oh @GrumpyL please do share how you are certain this woman was a prostitute? Counting out cash at 10.30am could have been for many things and only if you heard her say ‘I’m a prostitute, please hand my key out to the 10 men arriving at these times’ could you possibly be sure!

I agree with you OP and all the cool girls who feel so very ok with prostitution might want to consider how vile, exploitative and anti-consent prostitution is. Trafficked, abused, desperate women.

Would you want that future for your daughters, cool girl posters? Or yourselves? Fuck off.

All the posters laughing about how supposedly uptight you are just fucking handmaidens to patriarchal norms.

Oh bolleaux! It's really not the same as rape, rape is when you are forced to have sex against your will.
With the exception of trafficked victims who can't change their minds and walk away , it's really not rape.

That's an insult to real rape victims.

Would you rather these trafficked, abused, desperate women get in men’s cars? Or fuck in a dark alley, or under a bridge?

These women exist. Whether you agree with prostitution or sex work or whatever anyone wants to call it, or not. It isn’t going away. It will always be part of society. And the more visible it is, the safer it is.

OP, I suggest you stay away from Soho, Covent Garden, or Mayfair. There you can see doors that say “lovely ladies upstairs” plastered on them.

They are hurting people. WOMEN..

We are not commodities and we should
not be just laughing and turning a blind eye on thinking that any man should be able to pay for sexual gratification.

Men are not entitled to sex, and we should not be allowing our most vulnerable women to be exploited for men’s pleasures.

Women who are struggling to eat, who have complex needs, mental health issues, live far away from home, who are addicted to drugs, or even have children at home. These are human beings who have no choice to sell their bodies for sex, and the only reason they are able to do so is because some men are vile creatures and think they are owed it and want to get a blowie for a tenner on demand. Like ordering a kebab or a pizza.

It’s not judgemental to spot a prostitue from a mile off in a hotel, they stick out like a sore thumb. It’s painfully obvious who they are, and how we are just leaving them behind.

I will never forget the bbc documentary “life in the red light district” filmed in Leeds. It was and will be one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever seen.

And I will never forgive other media for making it seem like “sex work” is choice and glorifying it.

This made me chuckle! I love Pretty Woman.